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Windows 8 の方向性、踏ん張って維持して欲しかったよなぁ。Windows がタブレット機を維持してればアームやスタンドに取り付けたUSB type-C のケーブル一本繋いだだけのタブレット機が、それだけでフルに PC の機能を利用できるとか、とても素晴らしい事になってたし、 Mac との差別化も果たせてたのに。
Bluetooth接続キーボードの接続先切り替え機能、便利な様で日常的に複数の接続先を切り替えながら使うぐらいなら接続先の数分キーボードを用意した方が圧倒的快適よなぁ。切り替え操作が面倒ってんじゃなくて、どこに繋がってるのかを意識しないといけない脳内負担がイヤなんよねぇ。
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Do you guys remember that one glorious week when the auto translate feature brought the Japanese posts flooding onto the timeline and we learned that they are actually like **the best** friends we never knew we had?
They were just ripping bbq, monster trucks, kfc, honky tonks, and literally the friendliest people of all time
And totally reciprocated too like immediately the American tpot started going nuts for samurai and anime and sushi and it was just this big cultural dab up and we learned that two atomic bombs couldn’t keep us from loving each other and all those countries we were allied with in ww2 were totally lame and ungrateful in comparison
Probably my overall favorite week on this app
I asked 30 Japanese 12-year-olds one question.
"What do you think of when you hear 'America'?"
(My nephew's teacher let me visit his class. I was not prepared.)
"Hamburgers the size of my head."
"Everything is big. Even the milk."
"Cowboys." Then a boy asked me, "Do cowboys still exist?"
I said yes.
The whole class cheered.
"They went to the moon."
I told them only Americans have ever walked on it.
The room went completely silent. Respect.
"The best baseball in the world. Even Ohtani had to go there."
"Superheroes. They all live in New York."
Then a quiet girl in the back raised her hand.
"My grandma says when the tsunami came, American soldiers came to help her town. She still has a photo with them on her fridge."
Nobody said anything for a while.
Then the teacher asked, "Who wants to go to America someday?"
Every hand went up.
Including the teacher's.
👻 道化師 🃏 retweeted
I asked 30 Japanese 12-year-olds one question.
"What do you think of when you hear 'America'?"
(My nephew's teacher let me visit his class. I was not prepared.)
"Hamburgers the size of my head."
"Everything is big. Even the milk."
"Cowboys." Then a boy asked me, "Do cowboys still exist?"
I said yes.
The whole class cheered.
"They went to the moon."
I told them only Americans have ever walked on it.
The room went completely silent. Respect.
"The best baseball in the world. Even Ohtani had to go there."
"Superheroes. They all live in New York."
Then a quiet girl in the back raised her hand.
"My grandma says when the tsunami came, American soldiers came to help her town. She still has a photo with them on her fridge."
Nobody said anything for a while.
Then the teacher asked, "Who wants to go to America someday?"
Every hand went up.
Including the teacher's.
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In Japan, "American" isn't just a nationality.
It's an adjective.
A quick Japanese dictionary:
American Dog (n.)
A corn dog. We had to name it after you. It was too good to be anything else.
American Size (adj.)
Extremely large. Used as a warning.
American Coffee (n.)
Lighter coffee, so you can keep drinking it all day. We assume this is how you get so much done.
Amekaji (n.)
"American casual." Jeans, flannel, work boots. Tokyo shops sell it like fine art. Japanese men pay serious money to look like they just fixed a fence in Montana.
Amesha (n.)
"American car." There are Japanese clubs devoted to driving enormous American trucks down streets designed for bicycles. They have never been happier.
So in Japan, when something is bigger, bolder, more generous, or more fun than it needs to be…
we just call it "American."
It's always a compliment.
